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Review of Weber Clarinet Concertos

Weber Clarinet Concertos

Paul Meyer gives fresh, spirited performances of Weber's three works for clarinet and orchestra, which fit comfortably on to a...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1992

Review of Fauré Piano Quartets Nos 1,2

Fauré Piano Quartets Nos 1,2

Faure may not have been quite as fussy in his dynamic markings as Elgar or Mahler, but it is to...

Reviewed by rnichols in issue: 4/2000

Review of Biber Keyboard Works

Biber Keyboard Works

Now that it is thought beyond reasonable doubt that the Missa Salisburgensis is a Biberian creation, so the great and...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 11/1999

Review of Górecki (3) String Quartets

Górecki (3) String Quartets

String quartets occupied Henryk Górecki intensively in his later years. Inspired by lines from a Renaissance motet, Already it is...

Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 6/2011

Review of Poulenc Figure Humaine

Poulenc Figure Humaine

The competition is strong when it comes to Poulenc’s choral pieces, both sacred and secular, and while Tenebrae certainly enters...

Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 10/2010

Review of Guridi Complete Organ Works Vol 1

Guridi Complete Organ Works Vol 1

When Marc Rochester reviewed a Lichfield Cathedral organ recital by Jonathan Rees-Williams in April 1991 it was not the items...

Reviewed by Andrew Lamb in issue: 11/2003

Review of Debussy/Ravel Orchestral Songs

Debussy/Ravel Orchestral Songs

It is understandable that the producer of this disc should have wanted to begin it with the comparative rarities—an aria...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 4/1992

Review of Airs Francais

Airs Francais

Although Heppner is often referred to as a Heldentenor – he has recorded glowing accounts of Walther von Stolzing (twice‚...

Reviewed in issue 6/2002

Review of Io Canterei d'Amor Chansons and Madrigals for Viol Consort

Io Canterei d'Amor Chansons and Madrigals for Viol Consort

Much of the earliest instrumental music was based on vocal models – lack of original repertory had a good deal...

Reviewed by John Duarte in issue: 6/1997

Review of Beethoven Keyboard Sonatas

Beethoven Keyboard Sonatas

Eighteenth-century products though they were, Beethoven's three sonatas of Op. 10 all pre-echo things to come in the nineteenth. Melvyn...

Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 6/1992


 

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